Values
The way we live, consume, and produce is changing. Our view is that shifting (cultural) values worldwide will inform nowadays design challenges. Looking at design through this lens of a new culture –sustainism, as we call it– highlights social-ecological qualities* as: connectedness, sharing, localism and proportionality.
Co-design
Sustainist Design Practice aims to help both designers and non-designers develop and implement meaningful projects aligned with current sociocultural contexts. Our platform, tools, training and shared processes help you to design for social and sustainable innovation. This includes co-creating strong relationships and networks within local contexts, realising projects with shared responsibility.
By collaborative design approaches from local perspectives, we aim to design for a more social and inclusive living environment. We do this by consciously incorporating societal / cultural values into the design process:
less is more > do more with less
objects > connections
centralised > networked
form follows function > form follows meaning
hierarchical > bottom-up
linear > circulair
efficient > effective
autonomous > interdependent
globalised > place-based
nature as a source > nature as a resource